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Summit Extra Pale Ale 3.29 410

Summit Extra Pale Ale

Percentile
74
overall

bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
4103.29/5.03.29/5.05.1%73.9Lager glass, Shaker
Commercial Description:
Summit Extra Pale Ale is not a beer brewed only for beer snobs. Just the opposite. It’s a beer for everyone to enjoy: construction workers, stock brokers, farmers, sales people, clerks, teachers, lawyers, doctors, even other brewers. Its light bronze color and distinctly hoppy flavor have made it a favorite in St. Paul, Minneapolis and the rest of the Upper Midwest ever since we first brewed it back in 1986.
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 jimmack34 (569), Lancaster, Ohio, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/512/20
Nov 26, 2008  
Bottle. Pours goldish orange. Smells grassy and citrusy. Tastes citrusy, sweet, some grainy malts. Light bodied and easy on the palate. Not too bad.


 slimchill (781), Austin, Texas, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/512/20
Nov 20, 2008  
Bottle. Clear amber-brown with a thin head. Nose is caramel malt and light spicy hops. Very clean with a good sweetness and mild hop character. Drinkable with a nice dry palate. Nothing spectacular but solid.


 nqualls (1428), Nashville, Tennessee, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/514/20
Nov 18, 2008  
Bottle. Poured a clear amber color with a thin white head. Aroma of spice and floral hops. Flavor was malty with a slight hop bitter finish. Good beer.


 Nate (2554), Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/58/20
Oct 26, 2008  
Bottle from Uncle Sudsy’s. Sweet caramel malt and some grassy floral hops. Light bitter astringent nose with a bit of metallic tang. Clear amber-orange with thin off-white lacing head. Medium watery body with medium-heavy carbonation. Starts quite bitter with dull grassy hops and mild caramel malt. Light caramel sweetness. Bitter finish and after, not quite harsh but not as smooth as others. Light metallic and bitter astringency, though it doesn’t last or coat the tongue.


 punkeedo (465), San Antonio, Texas, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/513/20
Sep 30, 2008  
2008 Bottle. A good standard EPA. Smells of floral hops. Tastes strongly of hops, not much more...maybe a little wheat. Light bitter aftertaste. It’s just a simple, straightforward EPA. Not much special or not much bad here either.


 AmEricanbrew (1900), Wynot, Wyoming, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/514/20
Sep 28, 2008  
Clear light amber with a slight head. Mild aroma is spicy malts with a whiff of floral hop. medium body. Good pale bready malt flavor is lightly sweet. Finishes with a nicely bitter floral hop bite. Olde skool pale here.


 kmweaver (2471), Sebastopol, California, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/513/20
Sep 22, 2008  
12oz bottle. Pours a clear, bright orange-amber color; off-white head with good retention and fine-bubbled lacing; solid pour. Solid amounts of earthy, English bitterness and basic sugary maltiness in the aroma; some citrus. Lively, fluffy carbonation. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: lots of chewy, resiny, earthy and citrus hoppiness upfront; basic core of crackers, simple sugar, and lightly burnt toast; not exactly watery, but lacking a bit of concentration; very drinkable but not immensely satisfying or developed. Medium finish: dry toasty malts, crackers, and solid bitterness.


 17thfloor (1496), Chicago, Illinois, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Sep 17, 2008  
Pours a hazy amber with a medium frothy sudsy off-white head. Nice aroma of sweet pineapples, some grapefruit, light resin and some caramel. Pretty chewy stuff... mostly citrus followed by some sweet caramel and bitter salty pine. Sugary sweet. Cardboard yucky malt finish is its main downfall. A pretty good well loaded beer. Full flavored but still a lighter mouthful.



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